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Modern Twist to the Legend of Frau Hitt Renound not only over Germany and Europe but also the rest of the world, the company is highly successful and does very well on the Stock Exchange. CEO Hitt is a ruthless, selfish and greedy woman and stops at nothing to remain number one in agriculture. She embezzles large amounts of cash into offshore accounts in the Cook Islands and Bahamas, and pays just the minimum wage to her employees, who are most often migrant workers from the surrounding war-torn countries.
The German folktale of Frau Hitt has several variations, but in all of them she is the same: greedy and uncaring. Frau Hitt lived in a castle near Innsbruck, where she owned lots of land. Worked by farmers who earned very little money and respect from the Frau. One day during a time of famine, while riding her beloved white horse, she went to inspect the farms and the farmers in the fields. After blaming them for the food shortage and demanding they work harder and faster, she headed onwards to a pass where a stranger was standing in the clearing.
The stranger implored her to have pity on him and asked for some of the bread provisions she was carrying. She initially ignored him but again he implored her in the name of God. Frau Hitt, as miserly and selfish as ever, refused the poor man even a scrap of bread, instead picking up a stone from the road, gave it to the man and said "If you are truly hungry, eat this stone then."
Angrily, the hungry man cursed her by shouting "May you turn into the same stone as your heart!" As Frau Hitt crossed over the pass, a dark storm appeared. The man's curse came to light for after it had passed, Frau Hitt had gone, and in her place, stood a stone in the form of a woman. To this day, the stone outcropping of a woman can be seen near Innsbruck.
During a terrible economic crisis, brought on by demonstrations and strikes against the Chancellor of Germany, supermarkets and stores went through a shortage in bread and grain products. Fruit and vegetables had to be imported to make up for some independent farms going bankrupt. Frau Hitt was able to raise prices, uncaring of her struggling fellow man.
One Day, after having a meeting with her farmers to increase production, she was riding in her new white Mercedes down the rural roads towards the Autobahn. She was catching some lunch-on -- the go, while she reviewed her quarterly report. She noticed a hitchhiker standing on the side of the road with a sign "Will Work for Food." At first she paid no attention,…
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